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1922Radio connects remote Alaska villages to medical adviceThe U.S. Signal Corps establishes a radio network to link Alaska Native villages with doctors and nurses ...- 1923Tuberculosis identical among patients of different racesThe National Tuberculosis Association issues a paper stating that “tuberculosis attacks without racial ...
1924American Indians granted U.S. citizenshipInspired by the high rate of American Indian enlistment during World War I, President Calvin Coolidge ...- 1924Medical division established in Office of Indian AffairsThe Office of Indian Affairs creates a separate medical division to administer the growing number of ...
1924Professional nurses hired for reservationsThe Office of Indian Affairs begins hiring professional field nurses to care for Native peoples on reservations.
1925Emergency vaccine delivery helps stop diphtheria in AlaskaAfter the deaths of two Iñupiaq children, Dr. Curtis Welch realizes that diphtheria is spreading in ...- 1925American Indian TB deaths outpace general populationTuberculosis mortality in 1925 is 87 deaths per 100,000 in the U.S., in general. Among American Indians ...
- 1927Clean water, sewers needed on most reservationsAfter a century of the federal government moving American Indians onto reservations with inadequate ...
1928Airplane transports rural patients to AnchorageThe first air transport service for the sick and injured begins in Alaska. Its first flight brings patients ...- 1928New hospital serves Alaska Natives along Yukon RiverThe U.S. Bureau of Education builds a 20-bed hospital in Mountain Village to serve the Alaska Native ...
